Kentucky is for horses.

On Mon. (7/28) we went to the part of the Horse Park that required admission tickets.  That was a very unique experience.  We went through a couple of museums and saw a couple of shows.  We had the schedule beforehand and were planning on going early but as usual we could not wake up. I think maybe we are still stuck on Pacific Time.    Anyway, we went to the later shows and found out the shows were different each time.  Oh, well.

One was the Hall of Champions.  They have several retired champion horses living there.  A woman told about the horse and then played footage from winning races before someone else walked the horse out.  We saw Go For Gin ('94 KY Derby winner), Be A Bono (quarterhorse), Da Hoss (2x Breeder's Cup winner), and Funny Cide ('03 KY Derby winner).

Go For Gin

Be A Bono

Da Hoss

Funny Cide

After that we went to the Horses of the World show, which was narrated by the same lady.  We saw an Icelandic Pony, a Marwari (super rare), a Gypsy Vanner (my fave), an Andalusian, a Morgan Horse, and a couple of others I didn't get the name of.  The Marwari is so rare, I didn't even get a pic of it. Seriously, I don't know what happened.  They have really weird ears, so maybe I was looking at that.

Icelandic Pony

Andalusian 

Gypsy Vanner

After the shows, we walked around some more and looked at the horses in the Big Barn.  Yes, it's a very big barn, but it's also where all the really big horses were.  Here are some of the pics from the museums and grounds.

We thought this was a little creepy.

These horses had mounting and dismounting instructions.

That was good for the boys since they haven't ridden before.
 

We liked this one's haircut.

Zack is about 16 1/2 hands tall.

Ben is about 15 hands tall.

These were part of a jump in the very 1st competition here in 1978.

Some miniatures.

After the park visit, we rode our bikes part of the way on the Legacy Trail, which ends (or begins in our case) at the campground and goes 12 mi. to downtown Lexington.  My bike is in pretty bad shape right now - the brakes and chain are rusty for starters.  Ben's bike is not changing gears any longer, so we were afraid to go too far downhill in case he couldn't make it back up.  But that's a nice trail.

This morning we got up and headed home.  We had booked tonight at Tom Johnson's Marion campground since they gave us 5 free nights there when we bought our RV.  We ended just up making a short pit stop since the boys were dying to get home.  We moved all the stuff from the closets and drawers that aren't accessible when the slides are closed (our driveway is not really conducive to leveling RV and opening slides), did a little cleaning, one last dumping of the sewer, and then headed home.  Got here about 7:30.

Tune in tomorrow (or maybe a couple of days since we still have to unload everything) for some final thoughts, stats, random things.